Darcie Sternenberg • Dogwood Forest

Although I love to travel and photograph the exciting and unusual, I often find images that evoke more meaning in the everyday. For me capturing these images involves a deliberate process of searching for and ultimately visualizing the familiar, forgotten or unnoticed in an extraordinary way. The more I photograph, the more I see and appreciate the beauty in the ordinary. The magical interplay of a springtime dogwood tree scattered amongst the conifers on otherwise mundane forest service land in Southern Oregon is the subject of this image.